Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021

Tom Hanks doesn't need a human or even a sentient acting partner to make a film or a scene sing. Think Wilson the volleyball, Hooch and even that laptop from "You've Got Mail." So it's not at all surprising if he's the first guy on the list for your post-apocalyptic film about a man, a robot and...

Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021

As a young man starting college, director Todd Haynes fell immediately for the Velvet Underground — the band which, musician Brian Eno famously said, didn't sell many records, but everyone who bought one went and started a band.

It sounds like the storyline of a great fictional music film...

Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2021

Most TV dramas try to tell stories over a few years with maybe half a dozen central characters. The new series "Foundation" is a bit more ambitious — try 400 years and 25 million worlds.

To say it's sweeping doesn't do it justice. World-building is one thing. "Foundation," a four-year...

Thursday, Sep. 16, 2021

Season two of " The Morning Show, " starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, had filmed just 13 days when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down production in March 2020.

The writers for the show about the behind-the-scenes drama of a morning news program soon decided that the scripts...

Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2021

Apple TV+’s first-year soccer sitcom “Ted Lasso’’was the year’s biggest winner at the 2021 Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards, netting three of the ceremony’s highest honors in its debut season. Fueled by heartfelt and hilarious performances from a gifted cast led by 2021 TCA nominees...

Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021

They say silence is golden. It's a silly phrase, really, but it takes on an urgent poignancy for three stunning minutes in "CODA," Siân Heder's refreshing, loving and altogether irresistible film about a deaf family with one hearing daughter.

In this extraordinary scene, Ruby, 17 (...

Friday, Jul. 30, 2021

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) is special to editors A.J. Catoline and Melissa McCoy on varied fronts. For one, this year each earned a first career ACE Eddie Award nomination--Catoline for “The Hope That Kills You” episode, and McCoy actually winning the Eddie for the “Make Rebecca Great Again...

Saturday, Jul. 10, 2021

The most often-repeated thing said about the Velvet Underground is Brian Eno's quip that the band didn't sell many records, but everyone who bought one started a band. 

You won't hear that line in Todd Haynes' documentary "The Velvet Underground," nor will you see a montage of famous...

Sunday, May. 23, 2021

For Harry, returning to London to attend Prince Philip's funeral last month meant once more facing a place where he felt trapped and hunted by cameras. It would be a test of his ability to cope with the anxiety that was bubbling up again.

"I was worried about it, I was afraid," Harry told...

Monday, Mar. 8, 2021

Malala Yousafzai is a Nobel laureate known around the world for her activism, but she's also a cartoon fan, and is taking her love of television and film to Apple TV+.

Yousafzai, 23, who graduated from Oxford last June, announced Monday that she has partnered with Apple in a multi-year...

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